christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> In article <drfin1$eh$1@colwyn.zhadum.org.uk>,
> Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:
>>In article <drb4si$mm4$1@sea.gmane.org>,
>>	christos@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>>> We would like to be able to cross-build on "case preserving/case insensitive"
>>> filesystems, so if you find problems, please send-pr.
>>
>>I think that is a lost cause.  You cannot even checkout the sources to
>>case insensitive filesystem because of the conflict between
>>"src/gnu/dist/CVS" and "src/gnu/dist/cvs".
>>
>>"pkgsrc" has similar problems while "/usr/pkg" and "/var/db/pkg*" can
>>happily reside on a case insensitive filesystem. I solved that on my
>>Mac OS X system by NFS mounting "pkgsrc" from the NetBSD server.
>>
>
> If it is only CVS that is causing the problem, we could try to fix it
> by moving CVS to xcvs in current.

You mean, move all the CVS dirs to xcvs ?
Wouldn't it be better to move just the 'cvs' dir ?

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